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UT Health students train across disciplines while providing care to families at SAMM Transitional Living and Learning Center
By Kate Hunger
Respiratory care and physician assistant studies students participated this winter in a program designed to foster interprofessional clinical training while creating health plans for homeless families.
The RESPECT program (Realizing Enhanced Student Inter-Professional Education through Clinical Teamwork) brings together medical, dental, dental hygiene, nursing, pharmacy, respiratory care and physician assistant studies students.
Occupational Therapy Professor to receive Presidential Award
Occupational Therapy Associate Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor Kimatha Oxford Grice will receive a 2017 Presidential Award for Distinguished Service to the Institution next month.
School of Health Professions Dean David C. Shelledy nominated Grice for the award.
Interprofessional Open House in April will be the first of its kind
Prospective students interesting in learning more about admission to the School of Health Professions will also have an opportunity this spring to hear from three of the school’s programs at the School’s first Interprofessional Open House. The event is set for April 8 at 10 a.m. on the Long campus.
Alumna joins Respiratory Care faculty
Kristina E. Ramirez already had earned a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology when a family member began treatment with a respiratory therapist. Once she witnessed the expertise and care provided by that therapist, Ramirez knew she had found her calling.
SHP Grand Rounds lecture, UT System Heart Walk, health fair on tap for February
Several on-campus events schedule for February will spotlight public health:
The School of Health Professions’ Grand Rounds lecture series offers attendees a chance to learn about health conditions from the perspective of the full range of health professions.
This spring’s first of two lectures is set for Feb. 1 on the topic of diabetes and obesity. The April 12 lecture topic will be spinal cord injury. Lunch will be provided. Lectures run from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at MED 3.309L and STR 1.102.
Karen D. Barton: liaison librarian to the School of Health Professions
As the library liaison for the School of Health Professions, Karen D. Barton serves as the single point of contact to help students, faculty and staff navigate the resources available at Briscoe Library and innovate ways to enhance learning.
Barton’s office hours in the RAB lobby are Mondays from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., and she also is available for one-on-one help, including student research project assistance.
“We will help them develop their research questions, to find what resources they can go to,” she said. “We are pretty much a hand to hold in the process.”
Faculty snapshot: Physical Therapy professor keeps the focus on pain and its impact on mood, mind and movement
Professor Maureen Simmonds brings personal experience to bear in her pain research. Years ago, Simmons broke her back and pelvis in a horseback riding accident. Her understanding of pain informed her research from the very beginning, she said, and continues to do so.
“What I was taught about pain didn’t match what I was feeling,” she said. “It influences mood, mind as well as movement.”
Simmonds recalled thinking, “I need to understand this better.”
Research retreat hones ideas, honors Kudolo Award winners
The School of Health Professions hosted its annual research retreat on Dec. 9.
The day’s offerings included a morning workshop, which allowed faculty to “refine and renew their research ideas,” according to Dr. Kathryn S. Aultman, Director, Research Operations for the Schools of Nursing and Health Professions.
“By developing their Programs of Science, faculty can integrate their teaching, practice and research activities and stimulate their productivity,” Aultman said.
Art Rounds: Elective course shows how visual thinking strategies translate from art to patient
It’s unlikely that first-year occupational therapy student Amy Honeck will soon forget Paul Gauguin’s Sister of Charity.
Honeck researched and visited the oil painting — and even tried her hand at painting the nun depicted in the work— throughout her time in Art Rounds, an enrichment elective course offered through a collaboration between the UT Health San Antonio and the McNay Art Museum.
Grand Rounds talks scheduled for spring semester
First-year Doctor of Physical Therapy student Mike Nash has a better idea of the role a physical therapist plays in treating a patient with sepsis, thanks to a recent Grand Rounds lecture.
Nash attended both of the Grand Round Lectures series events this fall. Open to all students, the series features faculty from the School of Health Professions and is designed to foster interprofessional exchange by illustrating the ways all six of the School’s health professions treat a range of diseases and disorders. The series debuted in the fall of 2015.
Department of Emergency Health Sciences offers mass casualty training to airport employees
Dozens of airport employees at the San Antonio International Airport learned how to help victims in mass casualty events during training led by Terry Eaton, assistant professor of Emergency Health Sciences and civilian training officer.
The training program, Stop the Bleed, familiarized airport workers with how to use special kits, called I-Paks, and also taught them how to assess and stabilize injuries until first responders arrive. The kits, which are located throughout the airport, include gloves, scissors, a chest seal, tourniquet, combat gauze and a space blanket.
Students donate more than 500 pounds of food to San Antonio Food Bank
The School of Health Professions collected 523 pounds of food in its student-led holiday food drive — enough to provide 409 meals.
The food collected Nov. 15 through Dec. 12 was donated to the San Antonio Food Bank.
First-year Physician Assistant Studies student Jo-Anne Espinosa said she proposed the food drive as a simple way for students to give back to the community. She would like to see the drive become an annual holiday effort to address the problem of food insecurity.
Q&A with Dr. Byron C. Hepburn, Director of the Military Health Institute
Q: When did the School of Health Professions begin partnering with the Military Health Institute?
Occupational Therapy students attend, present at TOTA conference
Angie Zurovec hopes to land a job in a school setting after she graduates with her master’s in Occupational Therapy this month. No matter where she finds herself working with patients, she already knows they will benefit from strategies she learned in an art class aimed at teaching doctors and other health professionals how to deepen their observation of patients.
Second annual Interprofessional Bowl a Win for Physical Therapy Second-Years
Jamie Burns made the winning touchdown last month in the School of Health Profession’s second annual Interprofessional Bowl, but she said relaxing with students from other programs was the real prize.
“It’s a way to get out and actually see people who are in the other School of Health Professions programs as well,” the second-year Physical Therapy student said of the Nov. 5 event.
School of Health Professions students work health fair at Bob Ross Senior Center
About 20 School of Health Professions students performed health screenings and provided information during a health fair at Bob Ross Senior Center on Nov. 3.
Emergency Health Sciences posts 100 percent first-time pass rate for SAFD paramedic exam
The Emergency Health Sciences program announced that 100 percent of the 22 students who took the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians’ Cognitive Exam this fall passed on the first try, exceeding the national rate of 74 percent during the same time period.
Mark Dieterle, director of initial education in the Department of Emergency Health Sciences, said that the program consistently sees at least 90 percent of students pass on the first try, but that this class is the first to achieve a 100 percent first-time pass rate in recent memory.
Ana Allegretti speaks about "GoBabyGo!"
Modified ride-on toy cars have opened up a whole new world for mobility-challenged children in a program that Dr. Ana Allegretti, assistant professor of occupational therapy, is using to study the impact of early independent mobility on development.
Allegretti collaborated with The Children’s Rehabilitation Institute of TeletonUSA (CRIT) to bring the GoBabyGo! program to San Antonio. Founded by Dr. Cole Galloway at the University of Delaware, GoBabyGo! has spread to locations through the U.S. and the world.
Master of Science in Medical Laboratory Sciences offers opportunity.
Advances in testing and rapidly improving technology make first-year graduate student Matthew Landry particularly excited about the impact he will one day have on patient care as a medical laboratory scientist. Landry is one of 16 students in the inaugural year of the Master of Science in Medical Laboratory Sciences.
“You want to provide the patients with the most accurate and the quickest results,” he said. “Being the scientist that puts them into action, to be able to help patients—that's pretty exciting in my opinion.”
Master of Physician Assistant Study Graduates Have a Bright Future
Recent graduates of the UT Health San Antonio Physician Assistant Studies master’s program accepted jobs in primary care at almost twice the national rate of their peers.
Data from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants reveal that 46.4 percent of the program’s graduates from 2013-2015 accepted jobs in family medicine/general practice and internal medicine/general practice upon certification, compared to 25.6 percent of certified graduates from other programs nationwide during the same time period.
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